Articles & Papers

According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the AfD is now “definitely right-wing extremist”. It represents positions that fundamentally contradict fundamental trade union values. In this second part, I will show that the exclusion of AfD members from trade unions is also possible – contrary to what a recent decision by the Berlin II Regional Court suggests.

Contemporary television news programmes are often complex examples of hybrid communication (see Bucher, ‘Multimodal understanding or reception as interaction’, 2011). Television news presents related as well as unrelated information in both a linear and non-linear fashion by combining the news read with a variety of […]

Mission collections throughout Germany represent the material and ideological colonial legacy of the churches. Franziska Moosmann shares her impressions of her analysis of a mission museum exhibition and invites readers on a tour of selected rooms. In doing so, she asks how postcolonial theology and the culture of remembrance can be challenged and transformed by the objects on display.

These political decisions are linked to the question of the institutional location and the further development of artistic research in terms of content and aesthetics. The latter is addressed in the volume Permeations – Interpenetrations between Artistic Research and Aesthetic Theory, published by Spector Books […]

This paper discusses how the category of declarative speech acts can be used in the context of discourse analysis. For this purpose, similarities as well as differences between the works of Searle and Foucault are being discussed in order to illustrate the possibilities and challenges […]

Against the backdrop of the notion of disruption, this article scrutinises cur-rent concepts of discursive events and places them in relation to one another. The disrup-tive events derived from this are understood as a subcategory of discursive event. Using the example of the feminist abortion […]

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) represents positions that contradict fundamental trade union values. Trade union representation of employees’ interests is not compatible with membership of the AfD. Trade unions can therefore declare the AfD to be an opposing organization by means of an incompatibility resolution and exclude members who are also members of the AfD – and should do so.

The aim of this article is to theoretically substantiate antonymy as a discourse-linguistic category and to analytically examine it. The central question here is how antonymic relations are grammatically constituted in discourse and what communicative functions they fulfill. Following this interest, the main empirical part […]

Introduction to the special issue Widersprüche.

Publication in the “Archivale des Monats” series of the Research Center for Eastern Europe Studies Bremen. Als Wien zum Zentrum des tschechoslowakischen Dissens‘ wurde. Bremen: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa. www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de

Review of the edited volume Nationsbildung und Außenpolitik im Osten Europas. Nationsbildungsprozesse, Konstruktionen nationaler Identität und außenpolitische Positionierungen im 20. und 21. Jahr-hundert (ed. Bianka Pietrow-Ennker).

Seit jeher sind Gottesdienste Orte christlicher Gemeinschaftserfahrungen und schaffen durch kollektive Formen liturgischer Praxis ein Gefühl spiritueller Verbundenheit. Hierbei stellt sich jedoch kritisch die Frage, inwiefern dieser Anspruch christlicher Gemeinschaft gelebte Praxis oder uneinlösbares Ideal ist. Besonders für queere Menschen stellen Gottesdienste (heute zum Glück […]

European demand for raw materials is growing as part of the energy transition. Many of the raw materials required for the energy transition are located on the territories of indigenous peoples, which often leads to conflicts. Against this backdrop, it is surprising that the planned agreement between the EU and the Mercosur states does not contain any provisions regarding the participation and protection of indigenous peoples. A reference to such provisions, in particular from ILO Convention 169, would be required under international law and would help to make the conflicts and contradictions of the concept of sustainability negotiable.

This article aims to critically examine anti-genderist representations of queer Christian church services by analyzing social media data and discourse ethnographic field research. In this regard, the concept of ‘anti-genderism’ is first discussed with reference to current research literature and related to church policy contexts.

Contribution to the Journal Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft In this article, I address the precarious relationship between democracy and care and develop a radical democratic understanding of care – Radical Democratic Care. I proceed in four steps: First, I introduce the concept […]

In Austermann, Nele, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Heike Kleffner, Kati Lang, Maximilian Pichl, Ronen Steinke & Tore Vetter (eds.). 2024. Recht gegen rechts: Report 2024. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer. printISBN: 978-3-10-397556-7 ebookISBN: 978-3-10-491854-9

In this article, the proposal is made to analyse practices of contradiction with regard to their aesthetic potential. On the one hand, this is intended to demonstrate the diverse possibilities of contradiction studies and, on the other, to emphasise the role of aesthetic texts in protest discourses. Texts from the feminist abortion discourse will be used as examples.

In recent decades, the history of social movements has been characterized by discursive struggles for the attention to (intentionally) overlooked social positions of subjects and their actual or imagined membership in groups marginalized by and in mainstream discourses. Warnke, Ingo H., Bonacchi, Silvia & Seiler […]

This contribution deals with the contradictions of nature and agricultural economy in the contemporary moment of crisis in the Anthropocene. It is based on an analysis of the fantastic French film La nuée (The Swarm) by Just Philippot who reflects by this film also on the turning points from the preception of reality to obsession and from the uninjured body to the damaged body, or even from live to death resepctiveley from live instinct to death drive.

In this paper Jonas Trochemowitz and Lara Herford aim to analyze the talking format of Change my Mind by Steven Crowder and its adaptation by the former spokesperson of the right-wing extremist group Identitäre Bewegung in Austria. By employing the concept of ›genre of dissent‹ we ask the question how democratic values of deliberation are strategically used to gain legitimacy for far right positions in discourse.